Green lobbies take corporate cash and advocate the 'right' solutions

But there are two things we should take away from this--first, the environmental organisations loved by so many are in fact lobbyists and do in fact take corporate contributions. Second, we should abandon the double standard by which we condemn skeptic organisations from receiving support from energy companies if we are going to accept that corporate contributions support the work of environmental non-profits.

World Will Warm Faster Than Predicted in Next Five Years, Study Warns | CommonDreams.org

New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics
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The work is the first to assess the combined impact on global temperature of four factors: human influences such as CO2 and aerosol emissions; heating from the sun; volcanic activity; and the El Niño southern oscillation, the phenomenon by which the Pacific Ocean flips between warmer and cooler states every few years.

It shows that the relative stability in global temperatures observed in the last seven years is explained primarily by the decline in incoming sunlight associated with the downward phase of the 11-year solar cycle, together with a lack of strong El Niño events. These trends have masked the warming caused by CO2 and other greenhouse gases.